by deniseklarquist | Oct 16, 2019 | clay, gardening, soil, structure
Planting with Bay Area rain patterns The San Francisco Bay Area’s rainfall pattern and quantities vary widely from one year to the next and from month to month. See Weather Link for details. This creates some opportunities and challenges to gardeners and the landscape...
by deniseklarquist | Sep 4, 2019 | drought-tolerant, landscaping
Five reasons to have your landscape professionally designed by a landscape architect Professional design of your landscape: Expands your home into the outdoors where you can enjoy California’s climate year round. Allows you to direct resources to where they are most...
by deniseklarquist | Aug 29, 2019 | gardening, maintenance
Leaving plant litter in place The common landscaping practice of mulching under and around plant material to conserve water, help maintain consistent substrate temperatures, and as a weed inhibitor, can also play a role in carbon sequestering and global warming. Of...
by deniseklarquist | Jul 12, 2019 | natives, plants, pollution, soil, water
Using native plants to clean up toxic sites There are several kinds of bioprocesses that use plants to clean up soil toxins (Phytoremediation), but a couple stand out as being more valuable to use by landscape architects and garden designers. Phytostabilization (the...
by deniseklarquist | Jun 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Smart Landscape Design & Water Conservation Recent rains in the San Francisco Bay Area have been a very welcome turn of events in our on-going multi-year drought. While state officials have said these recent rains will help, they still fall short of annual...